From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patches
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:42:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A702D2A.5B4F97FD@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101250611.f0P6BI418581@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <3A702AC1.A077A105@innominate.de>
Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Netscape is bad news for patches, both sending and receiving. On send
> it wraps lines and doesn't let you see the wrapped version until after
> it's sent - on receive it likes to convert tabs to spaces. Avoid.
I use Netscape Mail all the time to send patches, and it works
beautifully 95% of the time.
If you attach the patch, Netscape detects it is text/plain and does not
encode it. People who dislike MIME complain a bit, but at least you can
see the patch and comment on it. And attaching the patch ensures that
no editor mangling occurs.
That said, every now and then, Netscape's text/plain autodetect will
puke and eat an attached patch. But that happens so infrequently that
the utility outweighs the pain.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-25 6:11 Patches Alan Cox
2001-01-25 10:08 ` Patches David Woodhouse
2001-01-25 14:59 ` Patches Mike A. Harris
2001-01-25 10:23 ` Patches David Woodhouse
2001-01-25 13:31 ` Patches Daniel Phillips
2001-01-25 13:41 ` Patches Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-25 20:22 ` Patches Thunder from the hill
2001-01-26 18:22 ` Patches Marc Mutz
2001-01-29 14:41 ` Patches Thunder from the hill
2001-01-25 13:42 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-07 10:02 Patches Miles Rout
2013-03-07 12:07 ` Patches Daniel Mack
2002-08-30 21:38 Patches Russell King
2001-01-18 6:34 Patches Alan Cox
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